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Connected Mobilities

The Uses of Yesterday and Today
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In the space of fifteen years, smartphones have replaced many technical devices, making digital uses more mobile and autonomous. Connected Mobilities presents an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the continuities and discontinuities between past and present uses of mobile applications in the era of permanent connectivity. This... Read More
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In the space of fifteen years, smartphones have replaced many technical devices, making digital uses more mobile and autonomous. Connected Mobilities presents an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the continuities and discontinuities between past and present uses of mobile applications in the era of permanent connectivity.

This book examines the socio-technical effects of these digital devices on social interactions, collective imaginaries, and modes of communication in public spaces now saturated with screens, interfaces, and mobile devices. It also examines their impact on our consumption choices, on the accessibility and discoverability of diverse cultural expressions online, and on power relations in increasingly digitised environments.

In order to shed light on the complex links between technological innovations, mobile connectivity, and development, the book analyses the opportunities and risks associated with the widespread, even pervasive, dissemination and adoption of these technologies. Based on surveys conducted in a variety of fields, the book questions how mobile applications can promote or hinder societal change and behavioural transformation in a context marked by persistent digital inequalities. It thus provides key insights into understanding the technological and societal changes underway in our hyperconnected era. It is essential reading for taking a step back and looking ahead to the issues and challenges of the future, in a world where the boundary between digital life and real life is becoming increasingly blurred.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781836690764

Publisher: ISTE Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 23 April 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: ISTE Ltd

Contributors:

  • Edited by Destiny Tchehouali
  • Edited by Jean-Michel Ledjou
  • Edited by Hanitra Randrianasolo-Rakotobe

Audience: Professional and scholarly

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Weight: 0g

Pages: 320

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Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Jean-Michel Ledjou is Associate Professor at Paris-Saclay University and a specialist in Information and Communication Sciences. He teaches in the computer science department at IUT d'Orsay, is a member of IDEST/AMETIS and has coedited several books and published numerous research articles on the adoption and dissemination of digital technologies, as well as on emerging practices.

Hanitra Randrianasolo-Rakotobe is Associate Professor in economics at Paris-Saclay University and has an agricultural engineering degree from the Higher School of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Antananarivo. She has coordinated several books and written numerous articles on the topics of digital technology and development, the explosion of mobile application and services and new economic models in agriculture. Since 2015, she has been an active member of IDEST, where she specializes in research on the impacts of digital technologies. At the same time, she continues her work as a research associate at UP InterAct (UniLaSalle), focusing on issues related to digital technology, vulnerability and sustainability in agriculture. Passionate about disseminating multidisciplinary knowledge in French, she has been a member of an international university team Presentation of Authors     xix since 2021 that organizes scientific conferences in French-speaking countries on societal issues related to digital technologies.

Destiny Tchéhouali is professor of International Communication in the Department of Social and Public Communication at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and holder of the UNESCO Chair in Communication and Technologies for Development, Tchéhouali is also a co-holder of the Quebec Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Francophone Digital Technologies. Destiny Tchéhouali heads the Observatoire des reseaux et interconnexions de la société numérique (ORISON) at UQAM. He is also the chairman of the board of directors of the Quebec chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC Quebec) and chair of the Scientific Council of the Francophone Agency for Artificial Intelligence (Agence francophone pour l'intelligence artificielle (AFRIA)). Member of the scientific committee of the OIF's Observatoire de la langue française, his current research focuses on the circulation, discoverability and consumption of local/national cultural and media products/content on transnational digital platforms. In addition, his work explores digital divides and inequalities, the emergence of diffusion of technological innovations in the Global South, the geopolitical issues of cyberspace and Internet governance and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.

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